2 Responses to “Respect the Role”

This post is notably *completely* independent of the business value derived from either option. You are focused only on relationships, roles, and the pre-cursors to the reason we work together in the first place – delivering value.
As a root-cause inspection – I think that is good.

But many people can only think in terms of “what does that do for me?”
So, I want to extrapolating just a bit to include the impact on delivering value.

In option one, value is probably delivered sooner.
But it will suffer from lack of scalability (unless you have a cloning/time machine), and a high opportunity cost (whatever you, the effective one, aren’t doing) – there are a host of other more long-term costs (burnout, silo’ing, resentment, etc)

In option two, business value is delivered later*.
That value will, by definition (teamwork) be more scalable, and over time* the value will be far greater because 1+ dedicated, respectful professionals will tend to deliver better overall solutions more consistently than one.

Sounds obvious, but I think you are right to note that this all starts with what you describe above.
Good post.

Lief

* This time span isn’t necessarily that long because dedicated people tend to deliver for EACH OTHER – but as you say it takes respect.